Re: [newbie] 400MHz enough video power?

[Tom]

JoeHill wrote:
On Sat, 9 Apr 2005 18:34:33 -0400
Miark disseminated the following:

I have a Toshiba Tecra 8000 with a 400MHz processor, 192MB
RAM, and DVD drive. From within XFCE (i.e. a lightweight enviro)
I tried to play a DVD last night with mplayer, and totem, but
nothing seems to work. Is 400 MHz just too little power?

I think it depends a lot on your video card/chipset. You cannot play DVD's at
all without hardware acceleration, IIRC, no matter your system resources (though
yours are definitely on the low end anyhow).
        That just isn't so. I have a GeF4, I use the 'nv' driver, 
I've never used the proprietary nvidia driver, DVD's and any other 
kind'a movies play jus' fine.  DVD's, or any videos for that matter, 
_do not_ require hardware acceleration.   Miark, do you have the PLF 
versions of your players an their dependencies installed ? 
Particularly libdvdcss2-1.2.8-3plf

    400Mhz, an 192mb ram should not pose a problem other than takin 
a little longer to fill the initial cache. Miark, have you tried 
playin the DVD with mplayer on the CL  ?
     'mplayer dvd://1 -dvd-device /dev/hd?'
(fwiw, I think -dvd-device might be deprecated now, but it can't 
hurt)  And don't try to play the DVD untill the light on your DVDrom 
has quit blinkin after you insert the DVD.  If that light stays on 
or keeps blinkin, the drive can't read the media.

   Usually but not always the movie is title 1. You may need to try 
2,3,4.. also.  Will other DVD's play?  I've run into maybe 1:50 
commercial DVD's that just won't play on a computer. Couldn't even 
successfully rip to .avi with (PLF) dvd::rip

     mplayer will more often play problem DVD's than xine. BUT, 
every once in a while I've encountered DVD's that xine will play and 
mplayer won't.  Those are the players I would recommend, not totem
--
       Tom Brinkman                  Corpus Christi, Texas 


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